Toys "R" Us, the inventor of chain-store toy discounting, is being run ragged by Wal-Mart.

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Israel "Lev" Levarek, owner of a 13-year-old toy store with three employees, is considering making his first trip to Japan in three years, so he can buy Transformers action figures from wholesalers and shopping malls in Tokyo.

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Its posh, company-owned American Girl stores are as close as you can get to Apple Store profitability in the toy-selling business.

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Walmart and Mattel joined forces to create a pop-up virtual holiday toy store in a high traffic area of Toronto.

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This week alone saw a bankruptcy filing from a New York-based toy retailer, FAO Schwarz, more store closures and 37, 000 job losses at a bankrupt discount retailer, Kmart, and poor same-store sales growth from Sainsbury's itself.

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There is simply too much "negativism" here, says Ms. Barry, co-owner of the Wharf Shop, a toy and gift store on Main Street.

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During the song Fire - part of a planned "Elements" suite - Wilson set a studio bucket alight and sent out to a toy store for fire helmets for the orchestra to wear.

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The company has taken the toy industry by storm since 1997, when the first Build-A-Bear Workshop store opened in St.

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Eighteen Aviation Limited, trading as Aero Toy Store, keeps aircraft at Stansted Airport and has defaulted on its 2012-13 business rates liability.

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The following summer, Ternovskiy holed up at home and began to toy with the code for a new site that would re-create the atmosphere of the store.

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